Arc Raiders players try to learn who's the nicest in cross-play lobbies, and I promise you it isn't anyone with a console: "PC players seem to be way more relaxed"

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Some Arc Raiders players have been conducting a social experiment and the results, indeed, may shock you.

The meticulous study (spotted by PC Gamer) sought to settle a cross-play lobby issue with the blade of hard science: the friendliness of PC players when compared to console players. And, challenging everything you know about middle schoolers farting into their gamer headsets while shooting people online, Reddit user Monstras-Patrick seems to have determined PC users are the kindest.

That said, their methodology isn't exactly flawless. Monstras-Patrick and their brother based their findings on PS5 lobbies and PC lobbies over the course of just one week – so, their population excludes Xbox players. Then, their sample size is small; they played a total of 84 rounds on PS5, discovering a total of seven players they deemed "nice," and they played only 51 rounds on PC, reaping 17 "nice" players. In any case, Monstras-Patrick declares, "I am never playing the game on cross-play against console players ever again."

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
Senior Writer

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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